It certainly has been this road trip that has seen them go 1-6 with one game to go. Overall they have lost 12 of their past 16 contests.

Maybe we’ve already seen their best.

Maybe this is as good as it gets.

The horror that has become this road trip took another wrong turn at Miller Park on Tuesday night as the Jays were felled 6-1 by the Milwaukee Brewers.

For the Brewers it was double your pleasure double your fun as they opened up a 4-1 lead by the third inning on five hits, all of them doubles rung solidly against J.A. Happ, who lost his third consecutive start to fall to 8-8.

Overall, the Brewers crashed seven doubles and had a number of other solid shots caught at the wall. The Jays, God bless ’em, managed two hits with their final 24 batters in the game retired in order.

It was another case of the Jays falling into an early hole from which they could not climb out of.

Happ was yanked with one out in the fourth after allowing a bloop single to right by Milwaukee starter Mike Fiers and then walking Carlos Gomez.

So, what to do?

“It’s tough when you have a two-hit game and you score one run, it’s going to be tough,” Jose Reyes said. “Even this late in the season we’re not allowed to lose too many games. It’s almost September and we’re falling behind, behind in the standings and it’s not going to be good for us if we want to play in October.”

He was asked how he handles the frustration that this trip has brought?

“We just want to go home,” Reyes said. “It seems like we play better baseball at home. It’s tough when you come out with a lineup like we have and you score one run, two hits.”

Afterwards, manager John Gibbons was still hearing the reverberation of the balls cracking off the Brewers bats.

“I can’t remember the last game I was involved in when I’ve seen that many hard-hit balls all night long,” Gibbons said of the Brewers offence. “It was loud.”

Any way you slice it, this trip has been a shock.

“It’s been tough,” Happ said. “I still think we all feel like we can come out of it. I think, you know, hopefully we can break out of it. We’re going to need to sooner than later. But, I certainly know we’re capable.”

The weight of the losses though is that much greater due to the time of the season.

“Yeah. I think we all know the math part of it,” Happ said. “We’re getting down to it and every game’s important.

“We’re aware we need to play better baseball.”

CLOSING TIME

In Tuesday’s USA Today, there was a fine article on Kansas City manager Ned Yost regarding his growth and how he is doing a batter job with the Royals now than he did back in 2007 and 2008 as skipper of the Milwaukee Brewers.

Regarding the Royals current run that has seen them win 20 of their past 25, Yost had this to say:

“They just started hitting. People say: ‘Why did they start hitting?’ Well, if I had an answer for that, I should have been fired two months ago.

“It’s just their time. It’s their time to hit. It’s their time to excel. It’s their time to be in a pennant race. They’ve all been here going on three years, for the most part. It’s just their time to shine.”

Which brings us back to the 2014 Jays — perhaps it’s just not their time, not their time to shine.